Vertigo would have to be my favorite Hitchcock film that doesn’t involve crossdressers or nazis. Despite the film starring two Hollywood powerhouses at the times — Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak — the real star of the flick is arguable the city it’s set in, San Francisco. Has any movie [...]

Everyone wants to be cool, but those hipsters got it all figured out. In fact, hipsters are what cool people call cool. On my recent jaunt to San Francisco, I tried to nail down the reasons why. The fashion? The state of mind? The trust funds? Certainly, the neighborhoods and [...]

Chefs are a lot like artists: both professions tend to be substantially supported by those with high net wealth and disposable incomes, and this means both congregate in some of the most expensive cities in the world (New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, San Francisco). However, this also means both [...]

It seems that North Americans are perpetually torn and divided on which “coast” to favor. Seeing as the United States and Canada are such expansive countries, it’s a luxury to be able to judge those on the other side of the nation. In Canada, there is a quiet, yet pervasive, [...]

New York to Paris for $475 (incl. fees/taxes): For some reason when I read this deal I think to myself, if I had my own show, one where for some reason I had to announce good travel deals, I would introduce this one by yelling out in that two-tone Oprah-like [...]

There is nothing more rewarding than finding a city’s hidden gems, whether it is for food, coffee, or used books. I love stumbling across articles written by people who know these spots and just want to share them with the world. Today, an article in The Globe and Mail about [...]

Wow. If you haven’t been to our flickr group yet, I suggest you head over there. We asked for great travel photography and you have answered in a big way. Unfortunately for us, it makes our job far tougher when the end of the month rolls around and we have to [...]

NYC to Tokyo for $604: You have to leave on a Wednesday, and it has to be during the next three weeks, but this round-trip price includes taxes and fees (as Travelzoo points out, this is a fare you’re looking at normally paying about $1,000 or more). Las Vegas’ Venetian [...]

New York to Delhi for $835 (total): I may harp on these flights to India, which is usually a sign that I’ll have trouble putting off my own trip there soon, but anytime you’re able to score flights there for under a grand you’ve got to seriously think hard about [...]

Because everyone knows that walking around the city is just so pedestrian (rimshot) — eh, sorry, I’m ready for the holiday weekend. But seriously, what cooler way to explore the 470 square miles that make up the San Francisco Bay than on the actual water itself? The LA Times has [...]